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Ispahan, Half Of The World

One summer afternoon in Maine I discovered the 19th Century illustrated novel THE ADVENTURES OF HAJJI BABA OF ISPAHAN in my grandmother Edith’s bookshelves. As a ten years old boy I read the book in wonderment. The Persian city of Isapahan sat astride two of the great trade routes of the ancient world and the […]